Best Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers for Splunk User Behavior Analytics

Google Cloud is an online service that lets you create everything from simple websites to complex apps for businesses of any size. Customers who are new to the system will receive $300 in credits for testing, deploying, and running workloads. Customers can use up to 25+ products free of charge. Use Google's core data analytics and machine learning. All enterprises can use it. It is secure and fully featured. Use big data to build better products and find answers faster. You can grow from prototypes to production and even to planet-scale without worrying about reliability, capacity or performance. Virtual machines with proven performance/price advantages, to a fully-managed app development platform. High performance, scalable, resilient object storage and databases. Google's private fibre network offers the latest software-defined networking solutions. Fully managed data warehousing and data exploration, Hadoop/Spark and messaging.

Amazon Athena allows you to easily analyze data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL. Athena is serverless so there is no infrastructure to maintain and you only pay for the queries you run. Athena is simple to use. Simply point to your data in Amazon S3 and define the schema. Then, you can query standard SQL. Most results are delivered in a matter of seconds. Athena makes it easy to prepare your data for analysis without the need for complicated ETL jobs. Anyone with SQL skills can quickly analyze large-scale data sets. Athena integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog out-of-the box. This allows you to create a unified metadata repositorie across multiple services, crawl data sources and discover schemas. You can also populate your Catalog by adding new and modified partition and table definitions. Schema versioning is possible.

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is five times faster that standard MySQL databases and three time faster than standard PostgreSQL database. It offers the same security, availability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness as commercial databases, but at a fraction of the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed and maintained by Amazon Relational Database Service, (RDS). This automates tedious administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant and self-healing storage that auto-scales up 64TB per database instance. It offers high availability and performance with up to 15 low latency read replicas, point in time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, replication across threeAvailability Zones, and continuous backup to Amazon S3.

Amazon SimpleDB is a high-availability NoSQL data store that offloads database administration. Developers can simply store and query data items using web services requests, and Amazon SimpleDB takes care of the rest. Amazon SimpleDB is not bound by the requirements of a relational data base. It is optimized to provide high availability, flexibility and minimal administrative burden. Amazon SimpleDB automatically creates and manages multiple copies of your data in different locations to ensure high availability and data durability. You only pay for the actual resources used to store your data and serve your requests. You can modify your data model at any time, and data is automatically index for you. Amazon SimpleDB allows you to focus on application development and not worry about infrastructure provisioning, high availability or software maintenance.